ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,498, issued on May 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Emotion determination device" was invented by Isamu Nagasawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emotion determination device includes a traveling state detector, an occupant monitoring detector, and an emotion determination processor. The traveling state detector detects a traveling state of a vehicle. The occupant monitoring detector monitors a state of an occupant of the vehicle. The emotion determination processor determines an emotion of the occupant, based on outputs of the traveling state detector and the occupant monitoring detector. When a condition for deter...